My established modus operandi appears to be £5k and run it until it's dead which seems to involve about 150k miles over 8 years. Right now a 3.0 HDi in a Jag XF is starting to be gettable in that price range. If I can live with a slushmatic. However, I like the 407. C6 curious. (It's basically a 407...

We have a 508. It replaced the bastard 307cc from hell. Which replaced a lovely 407 2.2 petrol in burgundy with cream leather. Long story. Don't get me started... Short version: The 508 is a more worthy successor to the 406 than was the 407. The 508 is 'normal' whereas the 407 is so wacky and French...

Still happy with the 407 (which is now on 190k, bought Oct 13 at 74k).
It's asking for a third flywheel and I think it's going to get a solid on this time. And if that kills it then I'll be shopping for a 406.

"Anti polution" is a generic message that is shown for dozens of different and unrelated underlying problems. When you brake? Or when you take your foot off the accelerator? I know one of the many conditions under which "anti polution" is shown is when you've taken up slightly too much slack in the ...

What is the problem that is solved by self-driving cars? I like to drive my car. Is it the idea that us unreliable error-prone clumsy monkeys will be forbidden from operating cars? Who is at fault when a self-driving car crashes? (For comparison, what about an airoplane on autopilot?) If it's the op...

PP2k is the dealer diagnostic software. By comparison anything else is a waste of time. Besides reading fault codes -- and you can examine every ECU, e.g., BSI, MFD, COM2000,... -- you can also see live parameter measurements, display a graph of parameter measurements (although the graph isn't produ...

I believe the trim levels are: Access, SR, Active, Allure, GT. and that the GT has the double wishbone front suspension from the 407. The 2.2 HDi is only available with slushmatic and there is a technote about an engine oil leak. I see there's also a new "blueHDi" 150 that takes AdBlue. I noticed ou...